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* This verse constitutes 22.30 in some editions, so that chapter 23 starts with the next verse. No householder * householder See the first note at 1.31. shall take his father's former wife [as his own wife], so as to remove his father's garment. * remove his father's garment I.e., lay claim to what his father had possessed. Cf. Lev. 18.8; 20.11; Ezek. 16.8; Ruth 3.9.
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No man whose testes are crushed or whose member is cut off shall be admitted into the congregation * congregation Heb. qahal ; whether women are in view is uncertain, here and in vv. 3โ9; cf. Deut. 5.19; 31.30; Josh. 8.35. of ืืืื.
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No one misbegotten * misbegotten Meaning of Heb. mamzer uncertain; in Jewish law, the offspring of adultery or incest between Jews. Social-gender force uncertain. shall be admitted into the congregation of ืืืื; no descendant of such, even in the tenth generation, shall be admitted into the congregation of ืืืื.
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No Ammonite or Moabite * No Ammonite or Moabite Whether women are included in this prohibition is uncertain; cf. 1 Kings 11.1โ2. shall be admitted into the congregation of ืืืื; no descendants of such, even in the tenth generation, shall ever be admitted into the congregation of ืืืื,
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because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse you.โ
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But your God ืืืื refused to heed Balaam; instead, your God ืืืื turned the curse into a blessing for you, for your God ืืืื loves you.โ
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You shall never concern yourself with their welfare or benefit as long as you live.
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You shall not abhor an Edomite, for such is your kin. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in that land.
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Children born to them may be admitted into the congregation of ืืืื in the third generation. * in the third generation I.e., of residence in Israel's territory.
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When you [men] go out as a troop against your enemies, be on your guard against anything untoward.
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If anyone among you has been rendered impure by a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp, and he must not reenter the camp.
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Toward evening he shall bathe in water, and at sundown he may reenter the camp.
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Further, there shall be an area for you outside the camp, where you may relieve yourself.
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With your gear you shall have a spike, and when you have squatted you shall dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.
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Since your God ืืืื moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you, let your camp be holy; let [God] not find anything unseemly among you and turn away from you.
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You shall not turn over to the master a slave who seeks refuge with you from that master.
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Such individuals shall live with you in any place they may choose among the settlements in your midst, wherever they please; you must not ill-treat them.
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No Israelite woman shall be a prostitute, * prostitute Meaning of Heb. qedeshah uncertain. Perhaps a type of female functionary at a religious site. NJPS "sacred prostitute," but the notion that ancient Near Eastern religions included prostitution as a religious act has since been discredited. nor shall any Israelite man be a prostitute. * prostitute Meaning of Heb. qadesh uncertain. Although it is simply the masculine counterpart of qedeshah (see previous note), it is mentioned as if it refers to a distinct category.
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You shall not bring the fee of a whore or the pay of a dog * dog I.e., a male prostitute. into the house of your God ืืืื in fulfillment of any vow, for both are abhorrent to your God ืืืื.
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You shall not deduct interest from loans to your fellow Israelites, whether in money or food or anything else that can be deducted as interest;
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but you may deduct interest from loans to foreigners. Do not deduct interest from loans to your fellow Israelites, so that your God ืืืื may bless you in all your undertakings in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
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When you make a vow to your God ืืืื, do not put off fulfilling it, for your God ืืืื will require it of you, and you will have incurred guilt;
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whereas you incur no guilt if you refrain from vowing.
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You must fulfill what has crossed your lips and perform what you have voluntarily vowed to your God ืืืื, having made the promise with your own mouth.
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When you enter a fellow [Israelite]'s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want, until you are full, but you must not put any in your vessel.
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When you enter a fellow [Israelite]'s field of standing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand; but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor's grain.
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A man * man Lit. "participant whose involvement defines the depicted situation." As usual, all three participants in this caseโthe two householders and their wifeโare labeled mainly in terms of their relationship to the situation. See the Dictionary under 'ish . takes a woman [into his household as his wife] and becomes her husband. She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house;
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she leaves his household and becomes [the wife] of another man * man See note at 24.1. ;
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then this latter man rejects her, writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his household; or the man dies who had last taken her as his wife.
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Then the first husband who divorced her shall not take her [into his household] to become his wife again, since she has been defiled * defiled I.e., disqualified for him. โfor that would be abhorrent to ืืืื. You must not bring sin upon the land that your God ืืืื is giving you as a heritage.
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When a man * man Or "householder"; see the first note at 1.31 and note at 24.1. has newly taken a woman [into his household as his wife], he shall not go out with the army or be assigned to it for any purpose; he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household, to give happiness to the woman he has taken.
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A handmill or an upper millstone shall not be taken in pawn, for that would be taking someone's life in pawn.
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If a party is found to have kidnappedโand then enslaved or soldโa fellow Israelite, that kidnapper shall die; thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.
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In cases of a skin affection * skin affection Cf. Lev. 13.1ff. be most careful to do exactly as the levitical priests instruct you. Take care to do as I have commanded them.
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Remember what your God ืืืื did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt. * what your God โฆ did to Miriam โฆ after you left Egypt See Num. 12.10ff.
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When you make a loan of any sort to your compatriot, you must not enter the house to seize the pledge.
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You must remain outside, while the party to whom you made the loan brings the pledge out to you.
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If that party is needy, you shall not go to sleep in that pledge;
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you must return the pledge at sundown, that its owner may sleep in the cloth and bless you; and it will be to your merit before your God ืืืื.
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You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow Israelite or a stranger in one of the communities of your land.
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You must pay out the wages due on the same day, before the sun sets, for the worker is needy and urgently depends on it; else a cry to ืืืื will be issued against you and you will incur guilt.
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Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: they shall each be put to death only for their own crime.
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You shall not subvert the rights of the stranger or the fatherless; you shall not take a widow's garment in pawn.
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Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that your God ืืืื redeemed you from there; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment.
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When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf in the field, do not turn back to get it; it shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widowโin order that your God ืืืื may bless you in all your undertakings.
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When you beat down the fruit of your olive trees, do not go over them again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
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When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not pick it over again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
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Always remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment.
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When there is a dispute between two parties and they go to law, and a decision is rendered declaring the one in the right and the other in the wrongโ
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if the guilty one is to be flogged, the magistrate shall have the person lie down and shall supervise the giving of lashes, by count, as warranted by the offense.
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The guilty one may be given up to forty lashes, but not more, lest being flogged further, to excess, your peer be degraded before your eyes.
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You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.
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When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no offspring, * offspring Lit. "son," but daughters are also in view; cf. Num. 27.1โ11. the wife of the deceased * Apparently a type of widow whose late husband had a share in his lineage's patrimony, and whose access to support from that patrimony is now stymied by her lack of offspring; cf. Ruth 4.5. shall not become that of another party, outside the family. Her husband's brother shall unite with her: he shall take her as his wife and perform the levir's duty.
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The first child that she bears shall be accounted to the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out in Israel.
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"ref": "Deuteronomy 25:6",
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But if that party does not want to take his brother's widow [to wife], his brother's widow shall appear before the elders in the gate and declare, "My husband's brother refuses to establish a name in Israel for his brother; he will not perform the duty of a levir."
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.25.7",
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The elders of his town shall then summon him and talk to him. If he insists, saying, "I do not want to take her,"
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his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and make this declaration: Thus shall be done to the man * man Lit. "participant whose involvement defines the depicted situation." See the Dictionary under 'ish . who will not build up his brother's house!
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And he shall go in Israel by the name of "the family of the unsandaled one."
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"ref": "Deuteronomy 25:10",
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If two parties are fightingโone man with anotherโand the wife of one comes up to save her husband from his antagonist and puts out her hand and seizes him by his genitals,
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you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.
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You shall not have in your pouch alternate weights, larger and smaller.
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"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.25.13",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 25:13",
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You shall not have in your house alternate measures, a larger and a smaller.
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"ref": "Deuteronomy 25:14",
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You must have completely honest weights and completely honest measures, if you are to endure long on the soil that your God ืืืื is giving you.
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"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.25.15",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 25:15",
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For everyone who does those things, everyone who deals dishonestly, is abhorrent to your God ืืืื.
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"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.25.16",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 25:16",
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Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egyptโ
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how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear.
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"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.25.18",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 25:18",
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Therefore, when your God ืืืื grants you safety from all your enemies around you, in the land that your God ืืืื is giving you as a hereditary portion, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.25.19",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 25:19",
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When you enter the land that your God ืืืื is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it,
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"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:1",
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you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that your God ืืืื is giving you, put it in a basket and go to the place where your God ืืืื will choose to establish the divine name.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.2",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:2",
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You shall go to the priest in charge at that time and say to him, "I acknowledge this day before your God ืืืื that I have entered the land that ืืืื swore to our fathers to assign us."
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.3",
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The priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down in front of the altar of your God ืืืื.
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"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:4",
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You * you See note at 12.7. shall then recite as follows before your God ืืืื: "My father was a fugitive Aramean. He went down to Egypt with meager numbers and sojourned there; but there he became a great and very populous nation.
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{
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The Egyptians dealt harshly with us and oppressed us; they imposed heavy labor upon us.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.6",
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We cried to ืืืื, the God of our ancestors, and ืืืื heard our plea and saw our plight, our misery, and our oppression.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.7",
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ืืืื freed us from Egypt by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm and awesome power, and by signs and portents,
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.8",
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bringing us to this place and giving us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.9",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:9",
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Wherefore I now bring the first fruits of the soil which You, ืืืื, have given me." You shall leave it * it I.e., the basket of v. 4. before your God ืืืื and bow low before your God ืืืื.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.10",
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And you shall enjoy, together with the [family of the] Levite and the stranger in your midst, all the bounty that your God ืืืื has bestowed upon you and your household.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.11",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:11",
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When you have set aside in full the tenth part of your yieldโin the third year, the year of the tithe * in the third year, the year of the tithe See Deut. 14.28โ29. โand have given it to the [family of the] Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat their fill in your settlements,
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.12",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:12",
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you * you See note at 12.7. shall declare before your God ืืืื: "I have cleared out the consecrated portion from the house; and I have given it to the [family of the] Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, just as You commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor neglected any of Your commandments:
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.13",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:13",
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* Meaning of first part of verse uncertain. I have not eaten of it while in mourning, I have not cleared out any of it while I was impure, and I have not deposited any of it with the dead. * deposited any of it with the dead No part of the tithe may be left as food for the dead. I have obeyed my God ืืืื; I have done just as You commanded me.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.14",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:14",
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Look down from Your holy abode, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the soil You have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as You swore to our fathers."
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.15",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:15",
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Your God ืืืื commands you this day to observe these laws and rules; observe them faithfully with all your heart and soul.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.16",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:16",
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You have affirmed * affirmed Exact nuance of Heb. he'emarta uncertain. this day that ืืืื is your God, in whose ways you will walk, whose laws and commandments and rules you will observe, and whom you will obey.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.17",
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And ืืืื has affirmed * affirmed See note at v. 17. this day that you are, as promised, God's treasured people who shall observe all the divine commandments,
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.18",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:18",
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and that [God] will set you, in fame and renown and glory, high above all the nations that [God] has made; and that you shall be, as promised, a holy people to your God ืืืื.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.26.19",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 26:19",
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Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying: Observe all the Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.1",
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* Construction of vv. 2โ4 is uncertain. As soon as you have crossed the Jordan into the land that your God ืืืื is giving you, you shall set up large stones. Coat them with plaster
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{
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"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:2",
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and inscribe upon them all the words of this Teaching. When you cross over to enter the land that your God ืืืื is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as ืืืื, the God of your ancestors, promised youโ
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.3",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:3",
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upon crossing the Jordan, you shall set up these stones, about which I charge you this day, on Mount Ebal, and coat them with plaster.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.4",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:4",
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There, too, you shall build an altar to your God ืืืื, an altar of stones. Do not wield an iron tool over them;
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.5",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:5",
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you must build the altar of your God ืืืื of unhewn * unhewn Lit. "whole." stones. You shall offer on it burnt offerings to your God ืืืื,
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.6",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:6",
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and you shall sacrifice there offerings of well-being and eat them, rejoicing before your God ืืืื.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.7",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:7",
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And on those stones you shall inscribe every word of this Teaching most distinctly.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.8",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:8",
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Moses and the levitical priests spoke to all Israel, saying: Silence! Hear, O Israel! Today you have become the people of your God ืืืื:
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.9",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:9",
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Heed your God ืืืื and observe the divine commandments and laws, which I enjoin upon you this day.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.10",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:10",
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Thereupon Moses charged the people, saying:
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* Construction of vv. 12โ13 is uncertain. After you have crossed the Jordan, the following shall stand on Mount Gerizim when the blessing for the people is spoken: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.12",
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And for the curse, the following shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.13",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:13",
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The Levites shall then proclaim in a loud voice to all the people of Israel:
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{
"url": "https://www.sefaria.org/Deuteronomy.27.14",
"ref": "Deuteronomy 27:14",
"versionTitle": "The Contemporary Torah, Jewish Publication Society, 2006",
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